I Bush Venue. Calton Road. 557 3073. 7.30pm. £5.50 plus booking in advance. £6 on the door. British rockers who made it big in the States while still relatively unknown over here. They are now establishing a ﬁrm home base.

I The Selecter Music Box, 9c Victoria Street. 225 2564. 8pm. £7. The 2-Tone heroes who brought us ‘Three Minute Hero‘ and ‘On My Radio‘ are back in town. Pauline Black and Gaps remain from the original line-up. Get skankin'. I Bazaar Stones. Frederick Street. 220 1226. 9pm. Free. See Thurs 23.

I Crazy Gods 0f Endless Noise and X- CNR Cas Rock Cafe, West Port. 229 4341. 9pm. £3.50 in advance. £4 on the door. The headliners are a three-piece nutjob band from Bournemouth who like wearing clingﬁlm. They are funky musical magpies with a leaning towards hard rock and crazee samples.

I Blur SECC. Finnieston Quay. 248 9999. SOLD OUT. Can Blur match the Smash Hits tour for teen hysteria? Yes. they probably can. They can't really fail to please with such an impressive back catalogue behind them. Now we get to hear if the comparatively disappointing material on The Great list-ape gets a new lease of life live. as do so many of Blur's older songs.

I The Beautiful South SF.CC. Finnieston Quay. 248 9999. SOLD OUT. They continue to be average with occasional glimmers of possible genius; they continue to be one of this country's biggest bands: they continue to not let it go to their heads.

I Luka Bloom, Sharon Shannon and Eleanor Shanley Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Sauchiehall Street. 7.30pm. £10.50. £8.50. Tickets from the box office and the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 227 5511. More of a folky package but all the acts. particularly accordionist Sharon Shatmon have made inroads to the mainstream.

booking fee. Tickets from Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. See feature for David Bowie. Despite the ‘saddoes down on their luck' aspect of

this pairing. it does seem to have aroused interest and Morrissey's Sourltpuw

Grammar definitely had its unusual moments. ‘Dagenham Dave' could also be described as something of a Us! office fave. but don't let that put you off.

I Scarfo, Urusei Yatsura and Tonic King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. St Vincent Street. 221 5279. 8.30pm. £4. Tickets from King Tut‘s and Just the Ticket. Virgin. Union Street. 226 4679. New hardcore band who don‘t use their guitars in such a spare fashion as the likes of Fugazi. Their eponymous debut album is out now on Deceptive Records. See Fri 24 for Urusei Yatsura and singles reviews for Tonic.